Training Course: "Sustainability in Action" in France

Training Course: "Sustainability in Action"
18-26 March 2020 | Elbeuf, France

With the project "Sustainability in Action!" we wish to tackle both complex issues - global environmental challenges and sustainable development and young people's lack of social involvement and participation, and to implement concrete actions that youth workers can do to motivate young people get actively involved on a local level by increasing their environmental citizenship. We aim at enhancing and developing youth worker's competences to encourage, support and empower young people’s active involvement in solving environmental challenges and their active participation in a positive change towards a more sustainable society.

The specific objectives of the project are to:

· create awareness in regards to the current environmental challenges and explore interconnectivity of those challenges with other topics on a global level (i.e. health, migration, economy);

· explore the topic of youth participation and ways of attracting young people to actively participate on a local level;

· build youth workers' capacity to work more effectively with young people on the topics of eco-related actions and sustainable ways of living;

· explore environmental educational methods and equip participants with non-formal learning tools addressing the topics;

· share experience, methods and practices;

· create new successful and creative partnerships;

· promote Erasmus + and European Solidarity Corps as a tool for active youth involvement and participation;

· sensitize relevant stakeholders on the significance of environmental challenges on all levels.